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Beijing issues pollution warning as skies turn yellow
AP on Yahoo ^
| 4/6/05
| AFP - Beijing
Posted on 04/06/2005 8:03:15 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
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To: NormsRevenge
They need environmentalists. We don't appreciate them often enough. Without them, we have...Bejing.
To: NormsRevenge
bwahahahaha! Low cost provider of goods and services? At what price China? Your payments are coming due. I would like to see China break up like the Soviet Union.
To: NormsRevenge
of course, China is a signatory to the Kyoto protocol, and being an emerging economy...Kyoto doesn't apply.
Hey Kyoto morons.....now what ?
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posted on
04/06/2005 8:08:01 PM PDT
by
stylin19a
(Always remember - don't ever forget - "2 wrongs don't make a right, it's 3 lefts that make a right.")
To: followerofchrist
They need environmentalists. They also need some virulent labor unions.
To: NormsRevenge
This is one of the few times when governemtn has the legitimate right to get involved in the business of private business because the private business is hurting other private business, including the bodies of private individuals on their own private property.
I am a Libertarian, yet see the need for government oversight of this.
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posted on
04/06/2005 8:09:06 PM PDT
by
traviskicks
(http://www.neoperspectives.com/foundingoftheunitedstates.htm)
To: steel_resolve
price to who? the elites in china could care less about worker protection. I've got news for you, the elites in the US could care less about worker protections either - that's why business owners are gung ho to get illegals and guest workers into the US, because they know these workers can be stepped on.
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posted on
04/06/2005 8:09:16 PM PDT
by
oceanview
To: NormsRevenge
The Olympics should be an interesting event in this venue. Don't look for any record times.
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posted on
04/06/2005 8:10:03 PM PDT
by
Torie
To: oceanview
I am looking at the overall picture. You can't have much of a country if you destroy it in the process of trying to become a superpower, which is exactly what China is doing. I do agree that they don't give a bit of thought to their workers. They are so many chess pieces...
To: stylin19a
The Kyoto protocol is about regulating carbon dioxide not air quality.
To: Torie
It will be one of those weird things in life, The ChiComs are most concerned about losing face, witness Taiwan, the spy plane incident, etc. They can't admit to even the slightest mistake (this is more of a Chinese Characteristic, but combine it with Totalitarian & Marxism it gets ratcheted up beyond belief).
So in the next year or two they find out the Air Quality during the Olympics will hurt the World's perception of them and their system, there will be some amazingly major changes.
But it would be kinda cool to see the 1500m Gold Medal Winner finish with a 5 + minute time. :)
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posted on
04/06/2005 8:30:54 PM PDT
by
HKTechBoy
(There is no gray area in Life)
To: Conservative Firster
You're right...mostly carbon dioxide.
Kyoto also includes additional greenhouse gases:
methane, nitrous oxide, sulfur hexafluoride, and chlorofluorocarbons which all supposedly contribute to air pollution...along with dirt\dust particles.
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posted on
04/06/2005 8:45:48 PM PDT
by
stylin19a
(Always remember - don't ever forget - "2 wrongs don't make a right, it's 3 lefts that make a right.")
To: stylin19a
That list shows the idiocy of Kyoto. What about good old fashioned coal soot? Darkens the skies (making the air warmer), and contains actual pollutants rather than plant food.
Oh, wait - then nations like China, Mexico, Russia, and India would have to comply and we'd have a surplus. I lost sight of the objective - destroy the US.
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posted on
04/06/2005 8:57:04 PM PDT
by
datura
(Fix bayonets.)
To: NormsRevenge
AVOID BREATHING THE AIR
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posted on
04/06/2005 9:02:00 PM PDT
by
Delta 21
(MKC USCG -ret)
To: stylin19a
Coals from various regions can be identified through mineral ash analysis. Metals and other identifiers vary from coal to coal and, if there are no emission controls, these IDs can be picked out of the dust blowing out of industrial chimneys into the prevailing west to east wind. Because coals in the world are known and traded, we know that Chinese industrial pollution is falling out over the Great Lakes. You can find it in the fish.
To: NormsRevenge
When you base your energy on soft coal there is a down side!
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posted on
04/06/2005 9:02:41 PM PDT
by
Fast1
(Destroy America buy Chinese goods,Shop at Wal-Mart 3/18/05 American was gone when I woke up)
To: NormsRevenge
We get some of their crud over here, you can see it as different shades of yellow, brown, or blue when looking toward the Alaska Range from Fairbanks. We also get raw smoke from Mongolia and Indonesia.
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posted on
04/06/2005 9:04:45 PM PDT
by
RightWhale
(50 trillion sovereign cells working together in relative harmony)
To: NormsRevenge
I love the smell of freshly made $159 Sneakers in the morning...It smells like....#&$!.
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posted on
04/06/2005 9:10:10 PM PDT
by
dirtydanusa
(100% American, no Jap cars, no Chinese shoes.)
To: traviskicks
You think private business is responsible for this pollution? In China?
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posted on
04/06/2005 9:13:25 PM PDT
by
Rocky
To: Fast1
When you base your energy on soft coal there is a down side!We've been there.
Donora, PA at noon on Oct. 29, 1948
as deadly smog envelops the town.
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